Blue Boots in Songs of Love and Death, SPOILERS for everything

[Nuytsia]

Yay got the SoLaD from the library and of course read Blue Boots immediately! (haven't read anything else from it yet)

Hmmm well I must say I wasn't super impressed, as I found the main characters fairly unlikeable. That minstrel was just plain creepy. Nice to have some tidbits from the good old 6D's though.

....Robin does have a habit of duplicating names over one or two books and this may just be another case? Examples of this would be:

1. Hest was the name of a member of the Six Duchies guard in TM and then the name for Hest, the bad guy, in the RWC
2. Malta was used for Malta the Elderling and also Fool’s horse
3. Chivalry was used for both Burrich’s lord (Prince/King-in-Waiting Chivalry) and also his eldest son
4. The name Bolt was given to Regal’s henchman and also to Bolt, Vivacia’s dragon

Hmm I must admit it hadn't even occurred to me that Lord Just was possibly the grown up child of Burrich and Molly.... mainly because I forgot that had a child with that name!!!!!
Robin does seem to occasionally use names more than once, but I think that examples 2 and 3 above have 'in world' reasons (not just a coincidence)..... the others seem to just be unrelated so yes it could be like those..... and I must say I was a bit thrown when I re-read Farseer trilogy and found the guy called Bolt! (who I'd forgotten) Made me think of the 'dragon' immediately.

Gees that usage of 'king' and 'queen' in the story is just weird. (and I hadn't noticed it!) I really think she is referring to the Lord and Lady, especially as she mentions the 'king' being in a pole chair; presumably that's Lord Just as he cannot walk.